Alexander Surkov

web, a11y, technologies, shaping the future

Canada

I am a software engineer passionate about the web, open source and accessibility. I love math (I hold a PhD in differential equations) and nature (paddling Ontario on a canoe is my favorite), and many many other things.

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Dec 17, 2021

Ozone: our way to the big change

Did you know that there is the Ozone layer inside Chromium? Well, Chromium is so huge, it has enough space for anything. Like the real ozone layer o

Nov 23, 2021

Drop shadows on Linux, or why standards are good

Since the origins of graphical desktop environments, there were two approaches to styling GUI of an application: using the standard system toolkit ver

Apr 22, 2021

Hidden Gem of Chromium Accessibility

Low-level accessibility toolsThere’s a hidden gem in Chromium accessibility. It is the command line accessibility tools. Similar to accessibility insp

Dec 4, 2020

Django + Postgres + nginx + uWSGI = ❤️

To date, I set up a production web service thrice. (Yeah, I am a full stack dev!) The first time I did many mistakes. That website still works, I main...

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Oct 21, 2021

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